I'm happy to admit that I like Lady Gaga's music and I'm even a closet Psy fan, but I would not (and don't) follow either of them on Twitter. I don't need or want those kinds of tweets in my everyday stream.

I don't know that there's an easy way to resolve this problem for those of us who keep those worlds separate, though.

I follow a lot of sports writers in my twitter feed, but I separate out those who 'live tweet' games into a twitter list so that my timeline doesn't become filled with those sorts of tweets.

Would this service work with a twitter list of musical artists that you like?

Using Twitter users and other bands as a source of finding new music sounds about as useful as the initial Popular page is. I doubt the majority of the bands I listen to are even on Twitter (not some sort of humblebrag, just a truth of the matter), no less that the artists they follow are aurally-related so much as just inspirations to them. Twitter is just not the platform for musicians without big PR bucks or personal motive to spend any time on, and I doubt clips vs. the full songs you can find available on SoundCloud, BandCamp, Rdio, Spotify, YouTube, et al are going to do anyone any favors.

Twitter needs to focus on what *it* is instead of trying to get into a sector that is already overwhelmed.

I can't really see myself incorporating Twitter #music into it because it's so much more work than what I'm already doing. Also, I'm much more likely to trust something like last.fm to recommend music since they know what I listen to and how often I listen to it. Rather than going by who I follow. I usually only follow bands if whoever writes their tweets is witty.

While I'm not crazy about 'blogspam' categorically, this time it seemed relevant (and was, when I followed the link). While it could have been broken out in the comments section, the post ran a bit long for this format.

I really like discovering new music, and I actually usually make a conscious effort of it. However, it's not very useful at the moment for me. I'm an independent musician. I use Twitter a lot and my music is available on iTunes, Spotify, and Rdio, but I'm not discoverable on Twitter #music. As such, a lot of bands I follow on Twitter are nowhere to be found on Twitter #music either. So, as it seems it's curated by Twitter (like their "verified accounts" thing), it's not helping me discover new music that I might like. It's throwing the same things at me that every service (e.g. Spotify) does.

So, what if you have exactly zero friends who tweet about music they're listening to? That seems to be the problem with most of these social discovery services, I just don't know of anyone else who uses them, or who shares what they watch / listen to, so they also have no use for me.

Is it just tech journalists who have all their friends hooked into and active in these services, or is it just me who doesn't? What say ye, other normal people?

As it turns out, the ‘Suggested’ tab on the iOS app harnesses your device’s music library to offer up (in my case at least) highly relevant recommendations – artists I may want to listen to.

Jacqui, did this work for you? If so, does it work well?

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It probably doesn’t matter that much to Twitter if you like this app or not

Twitter Music is an aggressive sell to the music industry. It says: “Twitter even more relevant than you may have realised and you should spend money advertising with us,” because after all, that’s what Twitter needs.

The app is really good — useful for its intended purpose of helping you find new music, and full of interesting interaction design elements. This is obviously what Apple was shooting for with Ping, done right.

As it turns out, the ‘Suggested’ tab on the iOS app harnesses your device’s music library to offer up (in my case at least) highly relevant recommendations – artists I may want to listen to.

Jacqui, did this work for you? If so, does it work well?

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It probably doesn’t matter that much to Twitter if you like this app or not

Twitter Music is an aggressive sell to the music industry. It says: “Twitter even more relevant than you may have realised and you should spend money advertising with us,” because after all, that’s what Twitter needs.

I use Twitter but abandoned Facebook a long tme ago. I also happen to use Spotify premium a lot. My biggest gripe with Spotify is that I can't share music with other spotify users because I don't want to have a Facebook account. I'm living in Europe (where Spotify works) but most of my friends live elsewhere (where Spotify doesn't work) so even if I were willing to have one, it wouldn't be too useful.

I see that Jacqui has a similar problem here (albeit for different reasons) though we're probably no 'target market' for an app like this. Still, I think it's a shame, because I love discovering new music, but have to proactively search for it.